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Patreon Pin Up 10/10/22 (Patreon)

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2022-10-11 04:00:56
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Well it's Mario mania on the internet this week ever since that trailer dropped for the upcoming movie, so I figured now was a good time for my take on Pauline! I've drawn her, Peach, and Rosalina now. Maybe Daisy next time? Are there any others left that I'm not thinking of? 

So, this trailer releases and the general response is largely positive from what I've seen.  That's frankly unheard of on the internet for video game related media, so this is a big deal.  Most of us can agree that this is the best these characters have ever looked, and that some serious effort has been put in here on the project as a whole. The humor is on point, and the respect for the source material is on full display. 

All well and good until Mario opens his mouth lol. Yes, quite a few fans are upset at the snippet of the performance showcased from our leading man, Chris Pratt. Said vitriol being aimed at how he barely seems to be performing anything but his regular speaking voice for the role. As for me, personally, I think he'll do fine. People will likely forget all about this initial blowback if the movie itself is half as good as it looks when it releases. It's my belief that anyone was going to sound wrong at first no matter who they cast for Mario, which leads to another facet of this debate. 

This week prolific voice actress (and future Mrs. Reinbach,) Tara Strong, voiced her disapproval of Pratt's casting. For you see, Mario already has a voice actor. Charles Martinet has made Mario's iconic voice his own for pushing thirty years now. Strong considers it a slap in the face to working stiff voice actors that anyone but Martinet is voicing Mario in this movie. 

I get where she's coming from, and I'm not just saying that because I'm hoping to simp hard enough to get her to notice me. But from my perspective, while Martinet's iconic voice fits the games just right, I don't think his particular performance would work in a two-hour movie. Am I crazy on this one? Martinet's Mario doesn't so much "talk" is the thing. It's mostly a lot high-pitched whoops and wahoos and I just can't picture that in a dialog-driven movie without big changes to his delivery. Martinet is the perfect Mario for the games, but I think someone else stepping in for the movie isn't exactly outrageous. 

That's my take, anyway. What do you guys think? As always I'd love to hear it in the comments. 


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Squid Hills

Didn't Bowser have a daughter in one of the games? Pretty sure you haven't drawn her, yet. :P

Anonymous

I think you have great taste in women. Tara is an absolute gem and a general talent.

Anonymous

I would prefer Mario be a mostly silent protagonist and let the side characters do the talking, much like how it was done in Super Mario RPG. Mario pantomiming his dialog worked really well.

Angelo

Well you've already drawn Bowsette but there's still Boosette.

ScuzzBucket

Beautiful picture of lovely, well-proportioned breasts and a great amount of cum! I will say that simping for a voice actress and calling her a future bride is SUPER ICKY and I would never do it. Now excuse me while I immediately re-check Idina Menzel’s marital status for the fiftieth time :D.

Sophia Dearden

The picture is awesome. I also feel the same about the Mario casting. I think they probably could have found a better person to cast, but Martinet has never voiced Mario speaking full sentences and whatnot.

Anonymous

While it's true Martinet has never fully voiced Mario and the game Mario voice would sound silly in a movie, the man has range. I mean he voiced Paarthunax as well, about the furthest you can get from Mario voice wise. I don't know of course, maybe they tested him and didn't like the voice. But then they did like Pratt's take so... yeah.

Reinbach
>>93354856

You mean Wendy? I might have to do some serious backflips to make her conventionally attractive lol, but I do love a challenge every now and then. XD

Reinbach
>>93356503

I think that's the perfect fit for the games, yes. Mario really doesn't need to talk there. And since the games have been 99% of his media presence for the last few decades, I can see why it's weird now that he has to talk for sure.

Reinbach
>>93356598

I'll have to look her up, can't remember her off the top of my head. I never messed wiht any of the Paper Mario games either, might be some ladies hiding in there. XD

Reinbach
>>93362820

I'll agree that Martinet probably could have made it work, even with a full speaking role. He has a ton of range indeed and could have adapted his Mario voice for a full speaking role. In fact, that probably would have been the best case scenario here and my waifu is right. But I don't think this is Chris Pratt's fault, as studio heads ignoring the obvious choice in favor of a big name likely wasn't his call to make.

Anonymous
>>93362820

Oh no I don't blame Chris Pratt at all. Frankly given his most recent stuff I think he needs the work, haha. And I can't really blame the studio either. Charles Martinet does not put butts into seats is probably what the reasoning was. Whether that reasoning is correct is a different story of course. I get why they went with the known actor, I just don't think it's because Martinet couldn't have made the voice work.

Reinbach
>>93357899

Thanks! The more I think about it, Martinet might have been able to pull it off if he'd been free to expand on his limited performance from the games, and maybe should have been given a shot. Funny thing, though, if it wasn't going to be him, or Chris Pratt, who then? I'm trying to think of who should have been the big celebrity to play Mario and I'm drawing a blank. Only Bob Hoskins comes to mind, and even if he was still with us I doubt he'd have said yes lol.

Sophia Dearden
>>93357899

Maybe. I don't really know voice actors so I couldn't say myself. I just have a bit of a knee jerk favoritism for getting proper voice actors to do more voice acting in major pictures.

Anonymous

I don't think that Martinet has the acting chops to carry a whole movie, but Chris Pratts Mario sounds like Linda Belcher (Alriiiight!). I think that a different voice actor could make it his own, like Jack Black did with Bowser so far (which I loved)

Kyman201

So while it's true that Martinet hasn't OFFICIALLY voiced Mario long-form in any games, doing study for how much work the dude put INTO voicing Mario made me think the yeah, the dude could have managed it perfectly. Dude's did promo tours, in character. Did live talks at a Super Mario 64 reveal promo, in-character. I've no doubt the dude could have given an A+ performance for an entire movie, as he's been Mario for twenty years. There's videos of Martinet reading entire books to kids, in-character, as Mario. The whole "Well could he have done an entire movie?" makes me think "I dunno, did anybody ask him to try?"

Kudos707

The trailer for the movie looked fantastic (provided it has a good story and not just some generic fetch quest adventure), but idk why it's so hard for them to just get a voice actor instead of using Hollywood star power. Fans aren't happy because he doesn't sound like Mario, and Twittards aren't happy because they hate Chris Pratt.

Reinbach
>>93384132

I think Jack Black killing it so hard as Bowser is a big part of why Chris Pratt is getting judged so harshly by comparison lol. XD

Reinbach
>>93385323

Probably not, yeah. I heard he got offered some token role, but that's just a rumor and by the sounds of things I doubt he took it if so.

Reinbach
>>93426344

I remember in the 2000's they did a CG TMNT movie where presumably they ran out of money before they could hire celebrities for all 4 turtles, and had to use their placeholder actors. (All four of which were prolific voice actors.) One of them said in an interview that he and the others didn't realize they were actually in the final product until they were invited to the premier. Bit of a ramble, but I guess the point is the only time talent gets prioritized over stunt casting is when there simply isn't money for stunt casting.